Working Document for Synod’s Continental Stage Calls for Reform of Church Structures

National Catholic Register ^ | November 7, 2022 | Joan Frawley Desmond

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Working Document for Synod’s Continental Stage Calls for Reform of Church Structures

NEWS ANALYSIS: Canonists offered a mixed reception to the text released Oct. 27, with some dismissing its call for major reforms as a nonstarter.

WASHINGTON — The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality issued a working document designed to set a framework for the second, or “continental,” stage of the three-year global process launched by Pope Francis in 2021. But the text’s explicit call for the transformation of Church structures stirred controversy, raising the stakes for Church leaders in the U.S. and Canada, who will begin their formal deliberations in January for the global synod’s next phase. 

Entitled “Enlarge the Space of Your Tent,” the document invited Catholic leaders to reflect on demands for a more inclusive, welcoming Church that were voiced during the first phase of the synodal process, when local dioceses sponsored surveys and listening sessions. 

A portion of the text went much further, however. It explicitly called for the transformation of all Church structures through the incorporation of a synodal model of prayerful listening and discernment that would impact Church governance.

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It explicitly called for the transformation of all Church structures through the incorporation of a synodal model of prayerful listening and discernment that would impact Church governance.

The only entity these heretics are "listening" to is Satan and all the evil spirits prowling about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

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[JJBookman]

I am SOOO glad I left for Eastern Orthodoxy, the true church of Christ!

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Go collect your 30 pieces of silver.